What’s Rhode Island’s favorite ice cream flavor? It’s not chocolate or vanilla

Love of ice cream may be one of the few things Americans everywhere can agree on – until you start talking about flavors, at least.

It’s National Ice Cream Month – though this summer every day may feel like an ice cream day, especially with the recent heat wave across New England.

Holiday Calendar conducted a study of the top five most popular ice cream flavors in each state, through analyzing grocery shopping data of over 12 million Americans, combined with a survey of 4,500 people across 15 states to supplement the findings.

Favorite ice cream flavor in Rhode Island

There may not be many moose to be found in Rhode Island, but they have certainly left evidence across the ice cream parlors of the Ocean State. Rhode Island was one of only two states to list Moose Tracks as their favorite flavor. The other was Michigan.

In fact, it only shows up on the top five in six other states, two of which are in New England (Maine and New Hampshire).

Like four of their other New England neighbors, Rhode Island residents also enjoy their coffee flavor, if not quite as much as Massachusetts, placing it in their top five. Their opinion seems to be about the same as Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii and Alaska, holding the fourth slot.

1. Moose Tracks

2. Vanilla

3. Chocolate

4. Coffee

5. Strawberry

Top flavors in the country

Vanilla came out on top in the nationwide average, being the first choice in 19 states. You can draw your own conclusions on what it may say that our nation’s favorite flavor is also a synonym for boring or uninteresting.

Chocolate ranked number one in 15 states, placing it second nationwide.

While they didn’t have a nationwide list, the International Dairy Foods Association supported these findings with their own data released last week.

• Vanilla.
• Chocolate.
• Strawberry.
• Butter Pecan.
• Cookie Dough